“Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.” – Proverb 5:20-21 Why would you have an affair? That might sound like a rhetorical...
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Moving landmarks and the fatherless
“Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.” – Proverbs 23:10-11 When you visit a foreign country, standard advice is to try to blend in. How well you succeed will depend...
Have you heard the other side?
“The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.” – Proverbs 18:17 I listened to my friend recounting the failures of someone he didn’t know was also my friend. I wanted to hold up my hand, to interject that his account of the...